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RFC 1880 - 7.4. The Network Information Center and Requests for Comments Distribution Contact

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### 7.4. The Network Information Center and Requests for Comments Distribution Contact

RFC's may be obtained from DS.INTERNIC.NET via FTP, WAIS, and electronic mail. Through FTP, RFC's are stored as rfc/rfcnnnn.txt or rfc/rfcnnnn.ps where 'nnnn' is the RFC number. Login as "anonymous" and provide your e-mail address as the password. Through WAIS, you may use either your local WAIS client or telnet to DS.INTERNIC.NET and login as "wais" (no password required) to access a WAIS client. Help information and a tutorial for using WAIS are available online. The WAIS database to search is "rfcs".

Directory and Database Services also provides a mail server interface. Send a mail message to mailserv@ds.internic.net and include any of the following commands in the message body:

             document-by-name rfcnnnn      where 'nnnn' is the RFC number
                                           The text version is sent.

             file /ftp/rfc/rfcnnnn.yyy     where 'nnnn' is the RFC number.
                                           and 'yyy' is 'txt' or 'ps'.

             help                          to get information on how to use
                                           the mailserver.

The InterNIC directory and database services collection of resource listings, internet documents such as RFCs, FYIs, STDs, and Internet Drafts, and publicly accessible databases are also now available via Gopher. All our collections are WAIS indexed and can be searched from the Gopher menu.

To access the InterNIC Gopher Servers, please connect to "internic.net" port 70.

Contact: admin@ds.internic.net

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RFC 1880 - 7.4. The Network Information Center and Requests for Comments Distribution Contact